Social Studies Research and Practice
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Elementary school teacher candidates’ perceptions on defining and integrating civic literacy
Jana M. Willis, Sheila F. Baker, Debby ShulskyThe need for strong civic education is constant, and teachers are essential to the delivery of civic education in the classroom. Teachers need confidence and competence to…
What were the different roles women played during the American Revolution?
Scott M. Waring, Samantha ForsythThrough the approach presented here, the authors created an investigation, utilizing the SOURCES Framework for Teaching with Primary and Secondary Sources, to allow their students…
Teaching a doctoral-level, interdisciplinary social studies course on critical social justice
Sheldene SimolaThis article discusses the underlying teaching framework of relational cultural theory (RCT), as well as additional teaching practices used within a doctoral-level…
On teaching Holocaust geographies: supporting inquiry into space, persecution and civic action
Jeffrey C. Eargle, Michael MewborneIn this article, the authors – a social studies methods professor and geography research associate – make the case for considering the integration of Holocaust geographies into…
Developing core practices of social studies preservice teachers through critical historical inquiry
Mathew Baker, Michael Lee JosephExamine how social studies preservice teachers conceptualize and enact critical historical inquiry.
Bootstraps, redlines and wage-theft: using Monopoly to critically examine American wealth inequality
Matt DinglerScholarship on America’s K-12 economics curriculum reveals an inattention to many harmful economic realities, specifically wealth inequality. Critics of the present curriculum…
Making the virtual historical using primary sources
Nicole C. Miller, Rebecca L. KellumThis paper seeks to demonstrate the pedagogical potential of incorporating virtual reality (VR) and primary sources in social studies education. It seeks to highlight how VR can…
Queer representation in children’s books beyond two moms or two dads
Peter C. OlsonThis article aims to help educators provide a holistic view of the LGBTQ community by highlighting children’s books that include non-parental LGBTQ characters.
Being l'Autre: French-Canadian immigrants in contemporary children's literature
Danielle E. SachdevaImmigration-themed children’s literature can be an important resource in the classroom, especially because some U.S. immigrant groups, including French-Canadians, have received…
“I got knocked down”: factors impacting a novice teacher’s decision making
Colleen Fitzpatrick, Adam FriedmanThis study explores how one novice teacher navigated his first-year teaching sixth-grade social studies.
Trade books' historical representation of Margaret Sanger
John H. BickfordThis content analysis examines the historical representation of Margaret Sanger within trade books. From the framework of the historiography, this paper unpacks how common…
“They will at least do no harm”: LGBTQ social studies teacher education
Cathy A.R. BrantThis study aims to explore the self-efficacy of social studies teacher education working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) preservice teachers, teaching…
Preservice teachers and the patriotism of the 1619 and 1776 history narratives
Benjamin R. Wellenreiter, Xiaoying Zhao, Thomas LuceyPreservice teachers (n = 39) described their definitions of patriotism and to what extent they believed statements from The 1619 Project (2019) and The 1776 Commission Report…
Students learning following a single self-guided tour to a history museum
Billie Eilam, Merav Yosfan, Joel Lanir, Alan J. WeckerThe authors conducted a study at a history museum with the objective of examining changes in the knowledge of students aged 12 to 14 concerning the use of primary sources.
Teaching about racial violence in a place of historical trauma
Elizabeth Yeager Washington, Travis Logan SeayThe authors describe an original unit plan that draws from local and national concerns for truthful history education about the history of racial violence in the United States…
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